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The Martyrdom of Maev and Other Irish Stories (Paperback)
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The Martyrdom of Maev and Other Irish Stories (Paperback)
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Harold Frederic was for a long time known primarily as a writer of
New York regional fiction and historical novels. His most
outstanding and influential novel, The Damnation of Theron Ware
(1896) represents the first extended narrative in US literature of
Irish-Catholic entry into American life. In 1995, a year short of
that novel's centenary, Joyce Carol Oates wrote: "WHAT a wonderful
novel is The Damnation of Theron Ware." Though raised in a
German-American, Methodist environment in the Mohawk Valley of New
York state, Frederic became intrigued with Ireland's people,
politics, and history when post-Famine Irish began arriving in his
hometown of Utica in the 1860s and 1870s. The Martyrdom of Mave and
other Irish Stories gathers for the first time all of the Irish
work Harold Frederic completed in his lifetime. He planned more,
but died of a stroke in his early forties, in England, where he was
employed as The New York Times London Correspondent. He had earlier
written his publisher that he had been "toiling for years" on the
archeology of the Iveagha (present Mizen) Peninsula in Cork, and
that the projected book of historical fiction underway would be
unique. The Martyrdom of Maev and Other Irish Stories brings
together the four sixteenth-century stories that Frederic finished
and published in magazines in 1895-96, and two of his stories set
in the west of Ireland of the second-half of the nineteenth
century. Taken together the stories track the ramifications of the
Elizabethan invasions as they extend to the famine, evictions, and
humiliations still plaguing the country just before the rise of
Parnell. The dramatic title story involves young romance caught in
the political unrest that begot the Land-League and portrays as
well the adamant, menacing, sexual prohibitions prevailing in the
rural Ireland of the late nineteenth century. Others portray life
within the remote Gaelic clans of late medieval Ireland. All the
stories reveal Frederic's brilliant prose talent-"The Path of
Murtogh," for example, a starkly primitive revenge tale, is as dark
and shocking as anything by Edgar Allen Poe. For those who like
Harold Frederic's fiction, or who love dramatic tales set in
Ireland, this collection makes for compelling reading.
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